So dark the inferno of a human mind

cinoh: A Rural Story photographed by Juergen Teller, Vogue...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:00:07 +0800

A Rural Story photographed by Juergen Teller, Vogue Italia November 1998

the dead outnumber the living

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:00:03 +0800

There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Reference Bureau estimates that about 107 billion people have ever lived.

This means that we are nowhere near close to having more alive than dead. In fact, there are 15 dead people for every person living. We surpassed seven billion dead way back between 8000BC and AD1.

ijustcametosayhi: “When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:00:30 +0800

ijustcametosayhi:

“When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances — My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale — he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That’s a lesson.“ - Leonardo DiCaprio

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Bas Jan Ader, All my clothes, 1970. Gelatin silver print, 28 x...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:00:18 +0800

Bas Jan Ader, All my clothes, 1970. Gelatin silver print, 28 x 35.5 cm

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hanguknamja: Korea's last prince, 이우. Died in 1945 in...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:00:19 +0800

hanguknamja:

Korea's last prince, 이우. Died in 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. (x)
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima not only took the life of one of the last Korean royals, it incinerated over 20,000 common Koreans, many of them forced laborers, at the hands of their enemy’s enemy, who not only did not distinguish between civilians and soldiers but refused to distinguish between the Japanese and their victims.

After the war, the few Korean survivors went unrecognised as victims of this atrocity, because they were not Japanese nationals, and neither they nor their offspring, many of whom suffered severe congenital malformations from the radiation poisoning, received compensation or adequate medical treatment.

They were thus triply victimized. First by the Japanese, who enslaved them. Second, by the Americans who exploded an atomic bomb over them indiscriminately. Third, by the world, for refusing to recognize them as victims of an atrocious crime against humanity. Even today, I’m surprised about how few people realise that so many Koreans were killed at Hiroshima (and Nagasaki).

nazic: Scan - Jaejoong - Mini Album ” I “[photobook]

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:00:26 +0800

nazic:

Scan - Jaejoong - Mini Album ” I “[photobook]

"I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really..."

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:24 +0800

““I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.””

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via diluvie)

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“The Love that dare not speak its name” in this...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:53:00 +0800

“The Love that dare not speak its name” in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the “Love that dare not speak its name,” and on account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. That it should be so, the world does not understand. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.”

DUSK AND DAWN: Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:16 +0800

DUSK AND DAWN: Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers :

eulum:

Ernest Hemingway: Salt water, rum, coconut and lime, cigar smoke, Spanish wine;

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gin, citrus, oak (prep school, amirite), in a champagne-flute shaped bottle with gold flecks in it;

Jane Austen: Darjeeling tea, snowdrops and pansies (flowers from her garden), meadow…

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Marlene Dietrich and her daughter Maria Riva, 1930, in a photo...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:00:23 +0800

Marlene Dietrich and her daughter Maria Riva, 1930, in a photo taken by director Josef von Sternberg

vintagemarlene: a window on the quai voltaire, paris, photo by...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:00:28 +0800

vintagemarlene:

a window on the quai voltaire, paris, photo by andre kertesz, 1928 (via pleasurephotoroom.wordpress.com)